Programming for Old People

I'm trying to start a little programming project using C#, and I'm having a real hard time getting back into it. I haven't done any serious programming since a short term job at Reasoning Inc., where I wrote optimization tools for a really complex piece of software to analyze ancient COBOL (or other) programs for Y2K fixing. That job culminated in a month-long stint in the fishbowl lab on the ground floor of Sun HQ in Palo Alto, where I demonstrated the product showed linear speedup on Sun's then-new 63 processor machine. This was not too surpising, since a typical project had hundreds of independent files which could be analyzed by an unthreaded process, but it made for a good joint press release, which was all that mattered back in 1998.
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So it's been over 5 years since I've done any programming beyond Excel macros, and here I am trying to get going with Microsoft's C# package, which borrows a lot from Java and Dylan and yet seems C-ish in its surface syntax. All those old programming neurons seem to be asleep, or perhaps they've been garbage-collected. Or maybe I'm just too old.